Shippable Secures $8M Series A Funding to Containerize and
Democratize Continuous Integration and Delivery

Led by Madrona Venture Group, funding will fuel expansion of Shippable's
platform into the enterprise and support a rapidly growing user base

November 06, 2014 09:12 AM Eastern Time

SEATTLE--(EON: Enhanced Online News)--Shippable,
Inc., a containerized continuous
integration and delivery platform, today announced that it has raised $8
million in Series A funding. Coming on the heels of a successful $2
million seed round in December, the new funding will be used to further
accelerate growth of the company and to drive adoption of its innovative
platform into the enterprise.

“We’re
really thrilled to work with Madrona. They have supported us and watched
us grow since our seed round and will be great partners as we expand our
business to the enterprise and beyond.”

Continuous integration and delivery (CI and CD) is the holy grail for
companies looking to innovate faster. It helps teams identify bugs
instantly, improve quality and reduce risk in their release cycles.
Shippable has reimagined this concept by leveraging containers and
created a platform that delivers speed, performance, ease-of-use and
cost-effectiveness for customers, both in hosted public environments and
private data centers.

Madrona Venture Group led the round, with participation from existing
investors including Paul Allen’s Vulcan Capital, Divergent Ventures and
Founders Co-Op. As part of the financing, Tim Porter, managing director
at Madrona Venture Group, will join the board.

“The phrase ‘continuous integration’ is a misnomer. Traditional CI tools
like Jenkins only help automate unit tests, and functional testing on
staging environments is still predominantly manual and not really
‘continuous.’ We have created a modern CI platform that automates the
entire delivery pipeline and makes fast and agile releases possible for
all enterprises,” said Avi Cavale, founder and CEO of Shippable. “We’re
really thrilled to work with Madrona. They have supported us and watched
us grow since our seed round and will be great partners as we expand our
business to the enterprise and beyond.”

Shippable helps software teams accelerate their software development
lifecycle by bringing together the power of containerization with an
easy to use, automated continuous delivery platform. Shippable’s
platform achieves this by giving customers:

Automated Functional Testing with instant, on demand dev/test
environments that are containerized replicas of production

Hybrid labs that can seamlessly grow or shrink across on-premise and
cloud machines with changes in workloads

Continuous integration and delivery with an automated pipeline from
“code to production”

Together, these produce a modern “ideal lab” that is cost-effective and
simple to maintain compared to traditional approaches that require a
significant upfront and ongoing investment. Shippable’s novel approach
reduces a typical enterprise’s dev/test lab footprint by up to 70
percent, while also improving application quality and accelerating time
to market.

Shippable runs on Amazon Web Services (AWS) and is natively built on
Docker, an open source project that is rapidly driving adoption of
“containerization.” However, customers using VMs can still get the same
benefits since the Shippable platform can abstract containerization,
thus not requiring any changes to how code is written or deployed.
Shippable’s value proposition is supported by the rapid growth in usage.
Since v2.0 was launched in early September, Shippable has added more
than 20,000 users and 2,500 organizations, and builds on the platform
have more than doubled month over month for the last several months.

“Containers and container-based technologies are one of the largest
trends impacting IT over the next decade. Avi and his team have
leveraged this technology in an innovative way to create a much better
CI/CD service; something that solves a major pain point for customers,”
said Tim Porter, managing director, Madrona Venture Group. “We believe
Shippable can become an indispensable platform for developers and
enterprises managing the software development lifecycle, both now and in
the coming wave of container-based environments. And, most importantly,
Avi and his co-founder Manisha Sahasrabudhe are incredible entrepreneurs
with outstanding customer-focus and long-term vision and we feel
privileged to partner with them.”

About Shippable

Shippable is a containerized continuous delivery platform that helps
companies accelerate their software development lifecycle. The SaaS
platform runs on AWS and leverages Docker to bring the full power of
containerization to enterprises and makes their delivery pipeline
faster, more efficient, and cost effective, without needing to change
anything in their current development process.

Shippable is available as a hosted service and Dedicated Hosts hybrid
model and is free for unlimited public and private repositories. Visit
Shippable at www.shippable.com.